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A couple of weeks back John Musser of ProgrammableWeb.com joined me and Ted for a chat to discuss the state of web APIs and the API trends as he sees them. We've now recorded the conversation and published as the first of a newly launched Bungee Line...
Some old Data Programmability teammates of mine, Britt Johnston, Pablo Castro and Mike Pizzo (well, Mike's not that old), are interviewed by Charles Torre in this Channel 9 video to discuss their progress, challenges and customer feedback in the last...
Todd Bishop at Seattle Post-Intelligencer has picked up on the fact that Korby Parnell , ex-product manager for some of Microsoft's most successful developer community-related projects (e.g. Codeplex, Gotdotnet and Claimspace - but that's another story...
Brian Johnson just landed a cool job as an "Enthusiast Evangelist" (EE) on Microsoft's DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelism) team. I worked with Brian in my MSDN / TechNet days where he then moved to the Mac Business Unit. He recently moved his family...
Weird. Even Mini-Microsoft has a Facebook profile .
This is great video from Channel 9 - an interview with Peter Spiro , a Technical Fellow and Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. It's probably an understatement to describe Peter's career path as "unconventional", a path that lead to him eventually to...
Back in April, the Data Programmability team at Microsoft announced "Astoria": Data Services for the Web , an incubation project exploring programming models for data over the web. As part of the announcement, the team deployed an online implementation...
Pito, you're dead right on this : "I’ve written in the past that I thought at 60,000 feet, Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X are more or less the same in terms of ease of use. The one huge (and probably crucial) exception to this is the initial user experience...
Ray Ozzie's briefing this week provided quite a bit more detail around Microsoft's "Software Plus Services" strategy. It's definitely worth a read (or a look , and if you're feeling too lazy for either you can read Nick Carr's summary ). It's been a year...
In May 2007 I attended Salesforce.com developer conference where Salesforce SOA was announced as an add-on to the Apex platform. Industry analysts focusing on the area of SaaS considered the move as significant, but not surprising (see Phil Wainewright...
Larry Jordan has posted news that the MSDN Library now supports tagging by users: "The MTPS [MSDN and TechNet Publishing System] Tagging feature enables customers and authors to add and remove visible keyword tags to both topic pages and wiki blocks to...
Dare has written up RESTpectful comparison of the programming models of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data API for querying relational data over the web (RESTful data services). Both these APIs also happen to support operations for changing the...
Todd Bishop reported today of Microsoft's intended entrance next year into the B2B SaaS market with its announcement at the annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, providing details on pricing and partner revenue-share plans for a hosted service...
Here's something I've been looking forward to for a while - Jon Udell interviewing Pablo Castro on the topic of Astoria . After the interview Jon wrote : "I’m not even close to being an expert in the underlying data access technologies, including ADO...
With all the analysis and reactions to the Microsoft acquisition of aQuantive last, I missed the fact that aQuantive is the parent company of the interactive marketing agency Razorfish ( Avenue A/Razorfish ). Brian Fling pointed this out and linked to...
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